A groundbreaking study reveals evidence that, in Iron Age Britain, land inheritance followed the female line, with husbands ...
Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable, according to surviving written ...
Real authority behind most decision-making rested with female leaders such as Boudica, say academics ...
An international team of geneticists, led by those from Trinity College Dublin, has joined forces with archaeologists from ...
Around 2,000 years ago, before the Roman Empire conquered Great Britain, women were at the very front and center of Iron Age ...
Roman writers found the relative empowerment of Celtic women in British society remarkable. People today shouldn’t.
Some scholars have suggested that the Romans exaggerated the liberties of women on the British Isles to imply that this was a ...
A new DNA-based study challenges the conventional understanding that Iron Age Britain society was dominated by men.
Julius Caesar, in his account of the Gallic Wars written more than more than century earlier, also described Celtic women ...
These include the famous warrior queen Boudica, who started an uprising against Roman occupation ... "But archaeology, and ...